Forecast for NC in my area is for a foot of snow, and later freezing rain.
extreme cold pending for DFW...
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Apparently not in Michigan either. Yesterday. No fatalities, thank goodness. Stay safe everyone. Be preemptive for this cold spell.
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But seriously, My Brother lived near Ft. Worth, and Worked in Dallas near Love Field for 20ish years.
it gets real down there once or twice a year. some of those highway bridges get PRETTY HIGH up there, and are very ICE prone.
they don't salt the roads, they just dump sand at the intersections.
99% percent of the time he'd do fine with Eagle F1 Supercar tires that came on his Challenger, but , there were one or 2 days a year that he couldn't make it the 200 yards or so out of his neighborhood...
they'd occasionally get a couple inches of snow, but it'd all be melted in a day or 2, they had Ice storms more than snow.
My uncle also lived down there for 20 or so years, and in one ice storm in the early 90's, he wrapped his Porsche ( 944/928 maybe? I was a little kid the one time he drove it back up here on vacation) around a light pole... and he replaced it with a Cavalier...
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Just looked at the forecast for my cabin in NW WI and it's going to be -26F in a couple days. I don't think I'll be out ice fishing...
I can't comprehend that kind of cold!
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I'm used to it. Been here in MN since 1991 and you quickly learn how to dress for cold weather. I work outside a lot so proper layers are a must.
I've been quietly chuckling at work for the last week, knowing this weather was coming...my boss went on vacation last week to... i forget where exactly, but it was tropical, and outside the US. she came back to work yesterday... to single digit temps with subzero windchills...
sharing that tidbit with a customer, He said his Neighbors had recently packed up their RV and headed to Key West.... only to have a day or 2 in the 30's when they got there.
Generator is ready in case the Texas grid fails again.
Yeap, drove from DFW to Abeline one night on literally 2" thick sheet of ice years back.
In other news, the city I was born in just had -42F a day ago and a city 120 miles north of it had -62F.
In other news, the city I was born in just had -42F a day ago and a city 120 miles north of it had -62F.
You should put in a main entry shutoff & low-point drain as a safety precaution. If heat goes out unexpectedly, close your main inlet & open the low point drain to empty everything (including your attic). Once heat is restored, simply shut the drain valve, open the fill valve, and off you go.
If your WH is in the attic, turn it off (breaker or gas valve) and drain the tank as well to be completely safe.
1.4 F here in central PA this morning!
The prediction of 1" thick of ice in places... There should be a lot of automotive carnage from this..
Oh man, my camping group and I drove from DFW to Big Bend Ranch State Park in that 2021 snowpocalypse. We left DFW at 3am in the morning (later during the morning rush hour traffic was that massive 133 vehicle pileup on I35W in FtW).
Everyone got a little squirrelly outside Midland on I-20 and after seeing a few FedEx and UPS tractor trailers in the ditches on their side, we decided it was time for a donut & coffee break.
Weather at BBRSP was sunny and in the 70’s when we arrived, but that cold front rolled in overnight and brought the snow & freezing rain with it. We did as much wheelin’ and sight seeing we could, then called an audible to head home at 3pm. We drove the entire night back and I made it home at around 7am.
The entire drive home was uneventful except the last 30 min where I hit some black ice and got sideways in 4Hi. The irony of driving all night through freezing rain only to get sideways in the last 30 min.
Funny note- we were barely able to keep freezing rain from accumulating on the windshields despite running defrosters on high and heated windshield wipers on. The only GX470 in the group didn’t have heated windshield wipers, and when he found out that the 4Runners had them, he was not a happy camper.
Crazy, but fun memory.
Lived in Gillette, Wyoming from age 7 to age 25, so I'm pretty good at driving in this stuff, the problem with driving in Dallas is nobody else knows how to drive in it. I'm pretty confident I can get wherever I need to be, but I can't always stay out of every buffoon's way. I drove the 15 mi to my office in 2016 after a freezing rain and snow event, and while the little Focus ST did fine being driven moderately, I witnessed two people around me on the highway just wipe out out of nowhere. A Ford Ranger slid nose first into the sidewall just three lanes over from me and we were they only two vehicles in sight on that stretch of highway. I'm pretty sure he crested a hill and let off the gas abruptly, which is all it took to swing his back end around. People need practice using the controls when the road is a sheet of ice..... Something they don't get a lot of in Texas because it's a pretty rare event. But they shouldn't try to drive like they normally would, especially with all-wheel drive vehicles, because it will end in an insurance claim.
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Oh man, my camping group and I drove from DFW to Big Bend Ranch State Park in that 2021 snowpocalypse. We left DFW at 3am in the morning (later during the morning rush hour traffic was that massive 133 vehicle pileup on I35W in FtW).
Everyone got a little squirrelly outside Midland on I-20 and after seeing a few FedEx and UPS tractor trailers in the ditches on their side, we decided it was time for a donut & coffee break.
Weather at BBRSP was sunny and in the 70’s when we arrived, but that cold front rolled in overnight and brought the snow & freezing rain with it. We did as much wheelin’ and sight seeing we could, then called an audible to head home at 3pm. We drove the entire night back and I made it home at around 7am.
The entire drive home was uneventful except the last 30 min where I hit some black ice and got sideways in 4Hi. The irony of driving all night through freezing rain only to get sideways in the last 30 min.
Funny note- we were barely able to keep freezing rain from accumulating on the windshields despite running defrosters on high and heated windshield wipers on. The only GX470 in the group didn’t have heated windshield wipers, and when he found out that the 4Runners had them, he was not a happy camper.
Crazy, but fun memory.
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Do houses in your neighborhood have basements ?
Nope, basements in North Texas are very rare & expensive, because the soil here is clay and expands & contracts with the weather. If a house here has a basement, then it would usually be a wine cellar in a multi-million dollar home.
Post-tension slab foundations are typical because they are cheap and “float” on the clay soil.
